Word: added
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...guage and imagery, she sat down and wrote an extraordinary 3,200-word document that she hoped would find its way back to her children and friends in Russia. Last week it appeared in the Atlantic magazine, which, pleased with its journalistic coup, proclaimed in an ad: "The great tradition of Russian literature has a direct descendant in the daughter of Nadezhda Sergeyevna Alliluyeva and Josef Stalin...
...targets were indistinct, the barbs not finely honed. Occasionally, as in its current issue, it found the mark. Piqued by what it considered excessive panoply surrounding the Adenauer funeral, the magazine noted that his body had been borne on an army truck and navy boat. In a neat reductio ad absurdum, it wondered in cartoons why the casket was not also carried under water by frogmen, helicoptered aloft, then parachuted back to earth, where it could have been loaded into a rocket launcher and aimed heavenward...
...ad game, last week was the greatest week for nudes ever. Take the situation in Manhattan newspaper dailies. There were nudes-or almost nudes -running full-page and in every style from hazy photographic to weirdly Beardsley and hard-edge pop. And the reason the models looked so naked was that the merchandise they sported would take up no more space than there is inside a midget's vest pocket. The seasonal subject was summer beachwear, and the uniform of the day was the ever briefer bikini...
...terry-cloth people, for their part, were pushing the "hip-buckled bikini with the little-boy legs" (some little boy!). An ad for the Cole of California line tried to make you think of that tiny piece of Acrilan acrylic knit as a "sizzle of orange with hot pink." For "a certain kind of woman who'd like to retrace Gauguin's steps," Peck & Peck was arguing that you didn't have to go to Tahiti to wear an island-print bikini...
...position takes Greep from the administrator's office and back to an area of research he has long been interested in. He has been involved in planning of the center for the past three years, heading the ad hoc committee in charge. It was known for a long time among top officials of the project that he would be its first director...